camp

I never cared for the Camp sensibility. Sit through a “so bad it’s good” flick? Please! I barely have time for good-good movies. My notes on a Sontag lecture I endured: “So dry and detached it’s deadening.” And anyway, Camp is so 49 years ago. But I love “The Camp Followers’ Guide.” This cheap...

This is “Think Pink,” from 1957’s Funny Face, starring Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, and in this scene, the magnificent, imperious Kay Thompson. If you’ll hold your titters at the clip’s campiness for a few moments, look at that marvelous visual direction!